Western European Empires – from colonial past to postcolonial world 

8 ECTS

Instructor: Jorge Pedreira

1. Western European empires (16th-20th century)
1.1. European colonial rule in the Americas, Asia, and Africa
1.2. Resistance, negotiation, and accommodation to European colonial rule
1.3. European empires, economic growth and globalization

2. Colonial rule, race, and evolving social / cultural boundaries
2.1. Forms of exclusion and inclusion
2.2. Colonial societies, racial thinking, and evolving social / cultural boundaries. Slavery and the transatlantic slave trade
2.3. Contesting the colonial categorization

3. From the “New Imperialisms” to the end of European colonialism
3.1. “Civilizing missions” and colonial rule
3.2. Decolonization wars, late colonialism and anticolonial nationalisms
3.3. Imperial Endgames and Post-colonial memories

4. Performing and Exhibiting the Colonial in Contemporary Portugal
4.1. Performing the nation and the politics of multiculturalism
4.2. From Seville’s Expo 1992 to Lisbon’s Expo 1998
4.3. Black activism and the quest for the decolonization